"Grant Kippen Comes Through, The Rule Of Law Prevails. Afghans Return To Polls Nov. 7. "

From Terry Glavin:

While scores of greasy diplomats, would-be power brokers and other such backroom characters have been slinking in and out of the presidential palace in Kabul in recent weeks, a quiet Canadian has been doing his job as the head of Afghanistan's Election Complaints Commission...

It isn't helping that Afghanistan is threatening to become merely an American project, with everyone else just expected to go along with whatever the White House decides. The Europeans are already beginning to doubt whether Barack Obama even counts the Taliban among his enemies....

Earlier:

Hillier redux/NATO?

While Washington deliberates...Gen McChyrstal is implementing his COIN strategy